Sartaba/Alexandrium was built by the Hasmoneans and expanded by Herod. A team of archaeologists has launched a first ...

Juan, an American tourist from California, discovered a rare coin from the Second Jewish Temple era at Shiloh, an ancient archaeological site in Samaria, which is internationally recognized as the ...

This date was observed as a holiday in Hasmonean times (Megillat Taanit). Birthday of Alfred Einhorn, German chemist who synthesized procaine in 1905, which he patented under the name Novocaine.

Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem just concluded their second season of excavations at Hyrcania, where they found colorful Byzantine mosaics and Herodian frescoes ...

Among the items included in the exhibition are agricultural tools from a Hasmonean-era farm uncovered near Mount Arbel, on display for the first time ever. Additionally, a Hasmonean coin hoard ...

According to the Bible, David gathered building materials for a temple that was to replace Israel’s mobile house of worship, ...